Happy New Year 2023 PNG

Happy New Year 2023

New Year's Day is the night that connects December 31 to January 1 in countries using the Gregorian calendar. In pre-Christian Rome according to the Julian calendar, New Year's Eve was dedicated to Janus, the god of passage and beginning, for which the month of January was named. As a date in the Gregorian calendar of Christendom, it is still liturgically celebrated in the Anglican and Lutheran Church as the Feast of the Naming and Circumcision of Jesus.

Today, New Year's Day is among the most famous public holidays in the world, as most countries de facto use the Gregorian calendar, usually celebrated with fireworks at midnight at the start of the new year. Other global New Year's traditions include making New Year's resolutions and calling one's friends and family.

Mesopotamia first celebrated the New Year in 2000 BC, at the time of the spring equinox in mid-March. The early Roman calendar designated March 1 as the first day of the year. The calendar had only 10 months from March. It is still reflected in the names of some months where the new year once started with March. September to December, the ninth to twelfth month of the Gregorian calendar, was originally positioned between the seventh and tenth months. Roman mythology generally credited their second king, Numa Pompilius, with the creation of the two new moons of Ianuarius and Februarius. These were first placed at the end of the year, but after a while they were considered the first two months instead.

The beginning of January (Latin: Kalendae Ianuariae) was celebrated as the new year after the inauguration of the new consuls in 153 BC. The Romans had long dated their years by these consuls, rather than sequentially, and had adjusted the end of January to this date. However, private and religious celebrations around the March new year continued for some time, and there was no consensus on the timing of the new status of January 1. But when it was the new year, it became a time for family gatherings and celebrations. A series of disasters, including the failed revolt of M. Aemilius Lepidus in 78 BC, created a superstition that allowed Rome's Sundays to fall in late January, and the pontifes used tweens to prevent this from happening.

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